War & Paradise: The Territories Of The U.S.

Unspeakable Human Experiments During Wartime

In addition to its long resume of military operations, Johnston Atoll was ground zero for the Project 112 biological warfare tests. While biological weapons testing weren’t exactly radical during the Cold War, who the USA chose to employ certainly were. As part of an agreement with Japan during WW II treaty negotiations, many Japanese scientists that had performed gruesome human experiments were spared punishment in exchange for the data they had accumulated. The wartime methods used by scientists during this time were unspeakable. It’s also known that several of them worked under the discretion of the US Military far through the 1960s as well.